sugarcube-2
SugarCube is a free (gratis and libre) story format for Twine/Twee. (by tmedwards)
twinejs
Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (by klembot)
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18 | 413 | |
202 | 2,225 | |
3.0% | 3.9% | |
8.6 | 7.6 | |
11 days ago | 26 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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sugarcube-2
Posts with mentions or reviews of sugarcube-2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.
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Issues with Numberpool Macro
I'm currently using Twine 2.3.9 with Sugarcube 2.36.1 and trying to run the numberpool macro. I've posted the CSS and JS files into the "Edit Story Stylesheet" and "Edit Story JavaScript" text boxes, respectively. But when I try to run the numberpool macro, I wind up with the error code:
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Twine for beginners
SugarCube is a little more barebones, but this also means more freedom. If you are a little more experienced with HTML, CSS and JavaScript (or plan to learn some by making a Twine game), I'd recommend learning SugarCube rather than Harlowe. Documentation: https://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/
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How to create a story game with Javascript
You can go without it and feel fine. But if you have custom stuff, you'll use some macros and scripts. What are they? Imagine Twine as a core, but it has various engines that do things differently. It supports four such engines(story formats) to make the creation process more accessible. Each of them varies in complexity. In this article, I'll be using SugarCube.
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Question regarding variables
I strongly suggest you consider changing your project to using the 2.x series of SugarCube instead.
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Help learning to create macros and/or widgets
As for examples, I would suggest looking at the source code of SugarCube's own built-in macros, because they use the same APIs as you would to create your own custom macros.
- Changing the tooltip for the UI Buttons
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How To Make a Sliding Bar
I'd recommend switching to the SugarCube story format, if it's not too late for you to do that. It has an approach which is far more open and amenable to creating your own custom inputs, such as sliding bars.
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Well hello I have a newbie question about using a custom GUI for twine stories
I strongly recommend using the SugarCube story format, since it's flexible and has the most built-in tools of any of the default Twine story formats. In the SugarCube "CSS" documentation section, it shows you how you can change backgrounds using tags you set in your passages and CSS you put in your Stylesheet section. Also, if you really want to have your own UI in SugarCube, you can use the StoryInterface special passage to change the layout however you want (though this will take knowing a bit of HTML and CSS).
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Pre-checked Checkbox
This means that you just need to update your version of SugarCube to get your code to work. The easiest way to do that is to just update to the latest stable release of the Twine editor. If you're not using the Twine editor, then you can download the latest version of the SugarCube story format from the SugarCube site.
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Selectors and stuff css for Stylesheet twine
I'm not quite sure what you mean by a "full list of selectors". I'd recommend checking out the SugarCube "CSS" documentation, especially the "Built-in Stylesheets" section. You might also check out the "Bleached" stylesheet, from the SugarCube 2 page.
twinejs
Posts with mentions or reviews of twinejs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-20.
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Building a narrative game with Next.js and AI
Once all dialogs were ready, I needed a nodal system to organize dialogs for each scene. Instead of directly crafting a huge JSON object, I relied on a visual tool called Twine.
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Make Rock, Paper, Scissor game with Ink "Game Engine"
Recently I discovered Ink narrative language by INKLE that you has the Inky editor and it is an alternative to Twine.
- Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
- Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?
- Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app
- Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
- Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files
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About Text based games,basically
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine.
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Harlowe 3.3.7 & Tweego
I'm trying to update tweego with the story format harlowe 3.3.7. I've copied the .json and .icon files for Harlowe 3.3.7 from here : https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/tree/develop/public/story-formats
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sugarcube-2 and twinejs you can also consider the following projects:
TwineHacker - Chrome\Firefox dev-tools extension: How To Debug(Or Cheat) Twine{SugarCube} Variables [GET https://api.github.com/repos/lure0xaos/TwineHacker: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
harlowe-audio - An audio library for use with the Twine 2 story format Harlowe (v2.x or higher).
gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites
cycy-wrote-custom-macros - Macros for SugarCube 2.
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!